World A Music Riddim – Various Labels

World A Music produced by Errol Lewis, Errol Marshall, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, King Jammy, Bunny Striker Lee, Michael Harrison, Steve Knight, Stephen Marley, Tad Dawkins for Taxi, Jammy’s, Thunder Bolt, Ridim Force, Ghetto Youths in 1983

World A Music Riddim dates to 1983 and is tied to the Taxi, Jammy’s, Thunder Bolt, Ridim Force, and Ghetto Youths circles, with production credits across Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, King Jammy, Bunny Lee, Michael Harrison, Stephen Marley, Tad Dawkins, and others. The original anchor is Ini Kamoze’s World A Music, with Junior Reid’s Boom-Shack-A-Lack, Dennis Brown’s Joy In The Morning, Echo Minott’s Living In The Ghetto, and later cuts like Damian Marley’s Welcome To Jamrock and Turbulence’s Young Girl showing how widely the pattern carried. Known as Jamrock Riddim in some listings, the cut was created by Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare and has stayed one of the more recognizable foundations to come out of early-’80s Jamaican production.

World A Music Riddim Tracklist:

1. Damian Marley – Welcome To Jamrock (2004)
2. Dennis Brown – Joy In The Morning (1984)
3. Echo Minott – Living In The Ghetto (1985)
4. Ini Kamoze – World A Music (1983)
5. Junior Reid – Bank Clerk
6. Junior Reid – Boom-Shack-A-Lack (1983)
7. Steve Knight – Robber Man (1986)
8. Turbulence – Young Girl (2006)

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